Trembling in the Ivory Tower

Abstract

It is often said that legal writers pick up ideas about ten to fifteen years after they have been broached and discussed elsewhere. This book, by a law professor at the University of Baltimore, would seem to illustrate the point. It bears a copyright date of 2003 but reads as if written back during the height of the Culture Wars of the late 1980s or early 1990s. It certainly echoes many books that were written then, such as Roger Kimball's Tenured Radicals (1990) and Dinesh D'Souza's Illiberal Education (1991).